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  • A new collaboration has Idaho ranchers and the BLM fighting fire together

    A new collaboration has Idaho ranchers and the BLM fighting fire together

    Conflicts began after the BLM banned ranchers from fighting fire on public land. But a surprising solution has emerged. Subscribers only

    by Emily Guerin, May 08, 2013

  • Coffee with the ladies

    Rancher Mary Flitner visits with some female bovine friends before going off to have coffee with the human ladies of Shell, Wyo.

    by Mary Flitner, May 05, 2008
  • Farmland conservation program may be plowed under

    Farmland conservation program may be plowed under

    The Conservation Reserve Program, which pays farmers to idle highly erodible cropland, is facing budget cuts and other challenges.

    by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Sep 20, 2011

  • Heard around the West

    Bear "product inspectors"; Rapid City, S.D., supports transsexual city councilman; road rage afflicts runners in Boulder, Colo.; feral llamas; bovine back-scratchers; candidate Linda Kelsch tells Utah Legislature to mind its own morals

    by Betsy Marston, Jun 07, 2004

  • Living precariously with wolves and cattle

    Bryce Andrews kills a wolf in order to save his cattle – and the lives of other wolves.

    by Bryce Andrews, Aug 06, 2007

  • Looking forward, looking back

    William Kittredge brings together new and selected essays about life in the West in The Next Rodeo.

    by Claire Dederer, Oct 29, 2007

  • New grazing rules ride on doctored science

    The Bureau of Land Management rewrote a scientific report critical of its new grazing rules, and two veteran scientists have quit the agency in protest

    by Tony Davis, Jul 25, 2005

  • Public-lands ranchers: Should you trust this man?

    Paul Larmer interviews longtime activist Andy Kerr, director of the National Public Lands Grazing Campaign, about grazing buyouts and the future of public-lands ranching

    by Paul Larmer, Apr 04, 2005

  • Pure bison make a comeback

    In Montana, the American Prairie Foundation and the World Wildlife Fund are working together to create a genuinely wild bison herd, one free of cattle genes

    by Frances Backhouse, May 01, 2006

  • Ranching still has a place on our public lands

    Mary Flitner believes public-land ranchers and Forest Service employees can – and should – get along with each other.

    by Mary Flitner, Dec 24, 2007
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